Local cafes and restaurants using or providing plastic plates, cutlery, chopsticks and straws could be fined $11,000 from next week under new laws about to be enforced in NSW.

This week marks the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the Holtermann Nugget, the world’s largest gold specimen, but do you know of its connection to Sydney’s lower north shore?

When it opened to the public in 1913, “The Ritz” at Cremorne Point was described as Sydney’s finest private hotel, with 140 rooms, electric lights - and a lift!

“An elegant Southern Highlands getaway in a prestige pocket of Mosman”, is how Richard Simeon describes 36 Somerset St, a grand five-bedroom Federation estate built in 1905 that’s ticking all the boxes for local buyers looking to upgrade.

Florence Nightingale has one in England, so does Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Wells, Enid Blyton and even Mozart.

Get your picnic hampers and deck chairs ready – the lower north shore’s Sunset Series is back in 2022!